Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ray McGovern

This is a matter of principle where she said my oath, my promise not to reveal secrets is superseded by my oath to defend the constitution of the United States.

Bill Clinton

They've got a right to try to override any veto that I make. That's the way the Constitution works.

They say the elections would not happen, and they did. They say the constitution will not be written, but it will.

Amending the constitution is not a good thing.

A law is a law and the constitution says he can't run,

John Thune

You're trying to pull together a lot of different people, a lot of different factions ... but I'm hopeful that when it's all said and done that they'll have a constitution that ultimately will be ratified by their government,

This means the constitution will stay as it is for decades to come.

It was boredom. Essentially that's what he said at the time. The constitution gives the lieutenant governor no real responsibilities except to succeed the governor in the event of death or other impairment.

Gore Vidal

Americans worship the Constitution but do not observe it.

George Washington

The Constitution that we have is an excellent one, if we can keep it where it is.

Ferdinand Mount

No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.

He's literally the criminal law expert, the constitution law expert, he's the expert on search and seizure.

John Conyers

Everybody wanted to explain Rosa Parks and wanted to teach Rosa Parks, but Rosa Parks wasn't very interested in that, ... She wanted them to understand the government and to understand their rights and the Constitution that people are still trying to perfect today.

Every state has an undoubted right to determine the status, or domestic and social condition, of the persons domiciled within its territory except insofar as the powers of the states in this respect are restrained, or duties and obligations imposed upon them, by the Constitution of the United States.

Bruce Fein

The most important thing to me, in terms of thinking about the issue of impeachment, is to recognize that the Constitution does place a value on continuity. We don't want to have a situation where you make a single error, and you're exposed to an impeachment proceeding.

Patrick Sullivan

A whole holiday about studying the Constitution just sounds like they're pushing, like they're trying to make more national pride and glorify the country, ... If one or two want to do it, that's fine but don't make it a holiday that everyone has to celebrate.

through peaceful means and dialogue within the framework of the Constitution and the law of the country.

John Roberts

The right to privacy is protected under the Constitution in various ways,

I've watched as you have kept your oath to preserve and protect the Constitution.

Chen Shui-bian

With sincerity, I swear to the people of this country that I will follow the constitution to increase the people's welfare and safeguard the country,

You had four members of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court who suddenly found a right to same-sex marriage in the oldest written constitution still enforced in the world. That is a prime example of what we mean by judicial activism.

John Roberts

What Daniel Webster termed 'the miracle of our Constitution' is not something that happens every generation,

Roger Pilon

There's irony in using an unconstitutional measure to promote Constitution Day.

Bruce Fein

There's nothing to suggest that in 60 years, she's ever thought or written a word about the U.S. Constitution. This is an opportunity squandered.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written

Jose Barroso

We will not have the constitution in the next years.

John Breaux

We do not have to have a trial. The Constitution says that the Senate shall be the sole trier of an impeachment resolution. It gives us the power to do it, but it doesn't demand that we have to,

We are trying to move from a state constitution to a constitutional state,

Their real goal is not to protect the constitution but to protect Tallahassee's inside power brokers from the will of the people.

I'm going to retake ownership of my constitution. The constitution was written to limit the power of those we elect to office. This fight is a very important one. There are 12.5 million Pennsylvanians and 253 people in office in Harrisburg, drunk on the power. They don't get it. Out here, it's us versus them.

I mean, it's shocking when you see how easily they fold in the media today. They don't stand their ground. You know, if they are criticized by the White House, they just fall apart. I mean, come on, toughen up, guys. It's only our Constitution and our country at stake. Let's get some spine going here.

John Conyers

creates a process grounded in the Constitution that is focused, fair, expeditious and deliberate.

Talk to me as a father, ... Just philosophically, what do you think? Not what the Constitution says, what do you feel?